"Dziękuję że podałeś (aś -- if you are referring to a female) mi rękę aby przejść razem (przejść przez ulicę)" -- I would say. If you do not know the person -- "że Pan podał mi rękę" or "że Pani podała mi rękę" (female) -- if you were speaking to a grown-up. .

Note that bigdummy wishes to speak to a child, so the normal way to say it in Polish would be"dziękuje ci, że poprosiłeś mnie, żebym trzymał cię za rękę aby przejść przez ulicę". Still quite a long harangue to little child. Most people would cut the last part, after "aby".

Well, Ben Jamin -- the child wants to cross the street -- we really don't know enough of the circumstances to choose the best option. Is it supposed to be a phrase to say "thank you", or rather a kind general statement, such as this one: "I will be grateful to anyone who helps me to cross the street."

I personally find the Polish sentence where almost each word has been translated too long, with redundant words (although they are present in the original). I would personally shorten it to make it express what it should express without retaining all the original words.

We might need more context. These suggestions I provided are Ok, but just to choiose the best one, or perhaps, so that someone else could come up with something better, more context might be needed. Or was it just for you personally, as the speaker?

- Who is the speaker? (girl/boy/man/woman/more people)
- Who is the person the person is referring to (boy girl/unknown man or woman, more people)
- Is it something said after the helping has already happened, or rather a theoretical statement - "I would be grateful, if"

Well, Ben Jamin -- the child wants to cross the street -- we really don't know enough of the circumstances to choose the best option. Is it supposed to be a phrase to say "thank you", or rather a kind general statement, such as this one: "I will be grateful to anyone who helps me to cross the street."

I personally find the Polish sentence where almost each word has been translated too long, with redundant words (although they are present in the original). I would personally shorten it to make it express what it should express
without retaining all the original words.
We need more context. These suggestions I provided are Ok, but just to choiose the best one, or perhaps, so that someone else could come up with something better, more context is needed, such as:
- Who is the speaker? (girl/boy)
- Who is the person the child is referring to
- Is it something said after the helping has already happened, or rather a theoretical statement - "I would be grateful, if"

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It seems that you misunderstood the original question posed in Spanish, and only responded to the attempt at Polish translation. Bidgummy described the situation where an adult wishes to speak to a child. In this context, a very long and complicated sentence, and especially one full of substantives instead of verbs would not work well.

No, I did not, Benjamin. I did not just respond to the Polish sentence at all. You are definitely right about one thing that we know the sex of the child (forgot that in Spanish the grammatical gender often coincides with the physical gender). In this case -- if the speaker -- he could use my fist suggestion without Pan/Pani.

The first sentence could be used both, by a man and a woman -- the form would only have to be changed as I suggested if he was speaking to a girl.

The rest was just related to the Polish translation provided by the OP which has a lot of redundant words and is not all correct. I just suggested that if someone wanted to use it speaking to an adult, they should use Pan/Pani. The third one was just a general suggestion used when asking for help, when crossing the street